Citizens struggle to overcome an age-old dogma that keeps them unjustly pinned under the foot of social order. – Kyle Robertson – Many hail the caste system as one of the defining marks of Indian culture; for those unlucky enough to be born into society at the bottom of the […]
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Aleida, Che Guevara’s daughter in London
Years after his unjustified assassination, a daughter seeks understanding and context for her father’s message. Graham Douglas Ernesto “Che” Guevara was born in Argentina and traveled throughout Latin America in his early life as a medical student; everywhere he went he was sickened by the poverty and injustice […]
Miles Cleret: Afro-Latin crossovers in music
A DJ since he was a teenager, his label aims to bring lost tracks from the 60’s and 70’s to modern audiences. Graham Douglas Cleret dislikes the term ‘World Music’ as a western attempt to classify ‘other’ music, instead focusing on the multicultural crossovers between musical styles from many […]
When the Latinos reached the UK
The 1970 ’s saw the arrival of the Latin American community in Great Britain. More than 40 years later, 186,500 Latinos have forged a path to the UK. This is the official estimate; the actual number could well be much higher.– – After gaining independence from Spanish and Portuguese colonial […]
Fifty years watching the girl from Ipanema
The “Girl from Ipanema” allowed one of the smoothest and most influential styles of Latin-American music to go global: the bossa nova. It is the 50 year anniversary of the creation of the song.– – Miriam Valero – It was the summer of 1962 in Río de Janeiro. At the […]















